No Left Turns

You Need Yoo

But not as much as the Obama Administration, which announced indefinite detention of as many as 50 Guantanamo prisoners. The Administration seems fixated on providing lawyers for terrorists while threatening the Bush Administration lawyers such as John Yoo, who tried to deal with terrorists. In the last segment of his Uncommon Knowledge interview Yoo surprises with his sympathetic account of the Obama Administration's terrorism policies. John was promoting his new book, Crisis and Command, a history of presidential power. He recently spoke at AEI, fresh from his drubbing of Jon Stewart, who apologized for his inept performance.

Highly notable in this regard is Ben Kleinerman's Lincoln-focused conception of executive power in time of crisis. He urges a much more politically astute presidency when it uses its powers for controversial purposes, however justified. This is much in line with the advice of friendly Yoo critic Jeff Rosen, at the AEI panel above.

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